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" A young woman in Delhi, India has allegedly been raped after hailing a taxi using online service, Uber. The 26-year-old claims she used the app service, which is now available in dozens of countries worldwide after being initially established in San Francisco, to order a taxi to take her home following a dinner with friends. However, after dozing off in the taxi, the victim reportedly awoke to find herself being raped, having been driven to a secluded part of Delhi. The driver, who has been named as Shiv Kumar Yadav, apparently warned the young woman that if she were to raise alarm about the incident, she would be hurt. However, he then dropped her off to her home, at which point she contacted police. Subsequent medical tests carried out on the victim appear to confirm that her allegations are truthful. What&amp;#039;s even worse, however, is that the driver in question was reportedly arrested for sexual assault just three years previously, which fuels claims that Uber does not adequately meet the safety requirements that are so necessary in a business focussed on taxi services. Claims were already in existence that Uber does not sufficiently vet its drivers, and this unfortunately supports that notion.  Despite Uber claiming that all its vehicles are traced by GPS so that exact routes can be tracked, with ETAs (estimated time of arrival) given to ensure the prevention of incidents like this, the driver in Delhi is said to have simply switched off his phone, which left him completely untraceable by the company. Which means these allegations don&amp;#039;t just leave Yadav in hot water, but also Uber itself. According to Reuters, Indian police have now announced that they will pursue charges against the company if they are found to have been neglectful of their duty to carry out thorough background checks on the driver. Madhur Verma, deputy commissioner of the Delhi police, said: &amp;quot;Every violation by Uber will be evaluated and we will go for legal recourse.&amp;quot;  And this isn&amp;#039;t the only flack Uber has come up against in recent months; one of their drivers in Seattle was also accused (and later cleared) of kidnapping and raping a passenger in July of this year; and one of the company&amp;#039;s female execs was exposed as having plotted a smear campaign, spreading details of the personal lives of any investigative journalists who dare publish a bad word about them - which doesn&amp;#039;t present them as being the most morally sound business around. In response to these recent claims, Uber have announced that the driver has been suspended, as per their policy. But it remains to be seen if this incident might act as the catalyst to some much needed changes to tighten their regulations, ensuring nothing but the utmost safety for their passengers. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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